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Date of issue: 21.12.2017
Record label: Prosthetic
Song language: English
Cradle for a King |
Everyone sees through you |
How do you sleep at night? |
Translucent eyelids don’t keep out the light |
Eyes that bulge apathetically |
From your engorged (yet empty) head |
Resting on a pillow bursting with dreams that will never take flight |
Songs that one time soothed their weary minds and tired limbs |
Become hauntingly, disturbingly, and loudly chanted hymns |
Frozen-hearted martyr-maker |
What keeps you safe and warm at night? |
A blanket woven with the flowers of forced labor |
Dyed and colored with the blood |
That you robbed from prisoners and slaves |
Admit it, you get off more when they are fighting to escape |
And what holds you up there, |
High above the rest of us? |
Mighty only if the sheets weren’t pulled over your head |
The posts of your bed carved |
From the bleached bones of your dead |
The faces of your apparitions dripping with the tears they she’d |
This is where majesty lies awake feeling corruptly luxurious |
Is this where dignity lies awake? |
In a cradle fit for a king? |
Frozen-hearted martyr-maker |
What keeps you safe and warm at night? |
A blanket woven with the flowers of forced labor |
Dyed and colored with the blood |
That you robbed from prisoners and slaves |
Admit it, you get off more when they are fighting to escape |
You are not my hero; |
you’re only my sovereign |
I’m not encouraged to follow in your noble, shallow footsteps; |
Just expected to obey |
And even though you’re the one that represents all of humanity |
You are still only human |
The backbone of immortality breaks every time: |
Our fatal flaws turn to fatal lies |